Hawaiian birdlife.
Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1972. Quarto, colour plates, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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The Koala: proceedings of the Taronga Symposium on Koala biology, management and medicine, Sydney 11th and 12th March 1976.
Sydney: Zoological Parks Board of NSW, 1978. Octavo, text illustrations, softcover. More
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Proceedings of the [twelfth] International Ornithological Congress: Helsinki, 5-12 June 1958.
Helsinki: Publisher unknown, 1960. Large octavo, text illustrations, publisher's wrappers, a very good set. More
Gli insetti: loro organizzazione, sviluppo, abitudini e rapporti coll'uomo.
Milan: Societa Editrice Libraria, 1909. Quarto, text illustrations. Publisher's wrappers, text completely loose in sections, some foxing. In Italian. Volume one: embryology and morphology. More
Invertebrate taxonomy.
Melbourne: CSIRO, 1987. Octavo, text illustrations. Binder's cloth, a fine copy. More
Fauna of New Zealand Number 33: Moranilini (Insecta: Hymenoptera).
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 1995. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
Biodiversity in the balance: mitigation and adaptation conflicts and synergies.
Sofia: Pensoft, 2009. Octavo, paperback, figures, tables. Climate change and biodiversity loss are both pressing global problems. Efforts are being made to address the former through various mitigation and adaptation activities, but these may have consequences for biodiversity which are not identified or acknowledged. This book reviews how mitigation and..... More
The natural history of Orkney.
London: Collins, 1985. Octavo, photographs, texta line on bottom edge, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. New Naturalist 70. One of the rarest of all New Naturalist, only 750 copies of the hardcover were produced. This is a genuine first with 'NN' on the spine, 500 copies of the paperback were..... More
Variation in mammalian populations.
London: Academic Press, 1970. Octavo, text illustrations, very good copy in worn dustwrapper. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London, number 26. More
Inheritance and natural history.
London: Collins, 1977. Octavo, colour photographs, signature, fine copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 61. More
The natural history of Shetland.
London: Collins, (1980. first edition). Octavo, photographs, bookplate, fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, scarce. New Naturalist 64. More
Novi commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Instituti Bononiensis, tomus tertius.
Bologna: Dall' Olmo et Tio, 1839. Quarto, 14 handcoloured (five folding) engraved plates. Modern binder's cloth, contents fine and crisp. Four papers by Bertoloni. 1. Continuatio historiae horti botanici et scholae botanicae Archigymnasii Bononiensis adjectis descriptionibus trium novarum plantarum, [1834]. Pp. 1-18, two handcoloured engraved plates (one folding). 2. Commentarius..... More
The Ostrich communal nesting system.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
In search of mermaids: the manatees of Guiana.
London: Petaurus Press, 1963. Octavo, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
The Francis Walker types of Trichoptera in the British Museum.
London: British Museum (Natural History), 1940. Quarto, text illustrations, fine copy in publisher's cloth. More
A general history of quadrupeds: the figures engraved on wood.
London: Ward Lock Reprints, (1970. facsimile). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. First published in 1790. "Such animals as I knew, I drew from memory on the wood; others which I did not know were copied from 'Dr Smellie's Abridgement of Buffon,' and other naturalists, and also from the..... More
A history of British birds.
Newcastle: R. E. Bewick, 1847. Octavo, woodcuts, the bookplate of Walter Froggatt, worn publisher's cloth. Volume one: History and description of land birds. Volume two: History and description of water birds. More
Notes by F. G. Stephens on a collection of drawings and woodcuts by Thomas Bewick, exhibited at the Fine Art Society's Rooms, 1880. Also a complete list of all works illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, with their various editions.
London: The Fine Art Society, 1881. Quarto, 32 illustrations from original wood blocks. Publisher's leather-grained cloth, all edges coloured, a few spots throughout, otherwise a very good copy. More
A field guide to the waterbirds of Asia.
Tokyo: Kodansha, 1993. Small octavo, colour plates, softcover. More
Chemical biomarkers in aquatic ecosystems.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. This textbook provides a unique and thorough look at the application of chemical biomarkers to aquatic ecosystems. Defining a chemical biomarker as a compound that can be linked to particular sources of organic matter identified in..... More
Bird census techniques.
London: Academic Press, (1992. first edition). Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in laminated boards. More
Fauna of New Zealand Number 23: Sciapodinae, Medeterinae (Insecta: Diptera) with a generic review of the Dolichopodidae.
Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua Press, 1991. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. More
The grasshoppers (Acrididae) of New Zealand: their taxonomy and distribution.
Christchurch: University of Canterbury, 1967. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
A distributional survey of the birds of the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 1989. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 43. More
A history of ornithology.
London: Harper Collins, 2007. Octavo, photographs, Ian Rowley's signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. New Naturalist 104. What did we know about birds a thousand years ago, and how has our understanding developed? This book offers a complete history of birdwatching in Britain from 1066 to the mid-1970's. Also available..... More